Until recently, two cities were in the running to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2025: Geneva and Basel. The Swiss media company SRG has now made its decision.
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) will take place next year in the Swiss border town of Basel. This was decided by the organizers, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Basel is located directly on the border with Germany and France. The city applied with the motto “Overcoming Borders”. It sees itself and the region as the best example of how borders can become unimportant in the coexistence of people.
The German border region wants to benefit from the ESC on the border. Lörrach is less than ten kilometers from Basel. The city’s non-partisan mayor, Jörg Lutz, spoke out in favor of the nearby ESC in Basel’s application video. “With the Eurovision Song Contest, we are turning the three-country corner into the 40-country corner,” he said. Many guests could stay overnight in Lörrach, for example. In Basel, hotel prices had already shot up to several hundred euros per night, even for simple accommodation, before the announcement.
Source: Stern
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